From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 21 14:26:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.lmtribune.com (www.lmtribune.com [216.222.95.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6934437B491 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:26:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmciver@lmtribune.com) Received: from mailpc.lmtribune.com ([199.5.221.152]) by www.lmtribune.com (Build 98 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA19184; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:27:03 -0800 Received: from ADV/SpoolDir by mailpc.lmtribune.com (Mercury 1.48); 21 Feb 01 14:25:39 -0700 Received: from SpoolDir by ADV (Mercury 1.48); 21 Feb 01 14:25:12 -0700 From: "Jim McIver" Organization: Lewiston Morning Tribune To: Dru , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:25:08 -7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: ports/make Message-ID: <3A93CFC9.21120.9AF8C26@localhost> References: <3A93BE3A.5879.96AEFF0@localhost> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dru, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. I've been re-reading the section on installing ports and the make command until the pages are worn out. rehash isn't even the index in the book I just got. Onward and ho ward. Crontab fix and a port installed in same day. hurrah! thx again, > > Hi Jim, > > General rule of thumb: it it's a "tgz", it's a package; if it's a > "tar.gz" its a port. > > Sounds like you successfully installed the package using the > "pkg_add" command. If you're in the C shell, you'll have to type > "rehash" before your shell will be aware that mtools is now on the system. > > Dru > > > On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Jim McIver wrote: > > > Having trouble following the Complete FreeBSD's book's > > instructions on how to install a port and run the make. > > > > My machine doesn't have a cdrom, so I copied the files to an internal > > ftp site to be able to get to the files to the Freebsd machine. I wanted > > to try the mtools(mdir, etc..) so I could try to read a dos floppy. Right > > now is say's command not found. Of course I've tried other > > port/make's and nothing seems to work correctly. (Got to be a user > > error on my part) > > > > Ftp'ed the file named mtools-3.9.7.tgz from the cdrom to the freebsd > > machine. Ran "pkg_add mtools-3.9.7.tgz" this completed without any > > errors. Went to /usr/ports/emulators/mtools and ran "make" > > Error comes back saying "mtools-3.9.7.tar" is not in the > > /usr/ports/distfiles area....so I gzip -d the mtools-3-9.7.tgz and copied > > the resulting mtools-3.9.7.tar file into the /usr/ports/distfiles > > directory so make could find it and tried make again. > > > > Same error message. > > > > I have ver 4.2(I think)of freebsd. It doesn't connect to the internet yet > > so it fails when trying to grab files from the web site. > > > > Is there a step by step instruction sheet for installing ports and > > running the make and make install that work? > > > > Of course I'm not sure what I'd do if make install worked, does that > > mean the program installed and is ready to run? > > > > Regards, > > > > Jim McIver > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message